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The fishes collection (IC) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 141,728
Media Records: 25,316
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

Catalog of all fish catalogued in the collection of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN) including dry specimens, otolith, tissus sample. The catalog include also the french type-specimens from the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Lyon, the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de La Rochelle, the Musée océanographique de Monaco, the Musée zoologique de Strasbourg and the Université Claude Bernard Lyon I. GICIM was originally created in 1982 (J.DAGET and J.-C. HUREAU).

Contacts

Name MNHN
RoleProvider
Emailnone
Name Simon Chagnoux
Rolenone
Emailgbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Name Patrice Pruvost
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Romain Causse
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Zouhaira Gabsi
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Claude Ferrara
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Patrice Pruvost
RoleCorrespondant
Emailnone
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
dwc_datasetid_added  i122928
86.735
dwc_kingdom_added  i122928
86.735
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i122928
86.735
dwc_phylum_added  i122928
86.735
dwc_taxonid_added  i122928
86.735
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i122928
86.735
dwc_taxonrank_added  i122928
86.735
gbif_canonicalname_added  i122928
86.735
gbif_genericname_added  i122928
86.735
gbif_taxon_corrected  i122928
86.735
gbif_reference_added  i121834
85.963
gbif_vernacularname_added  i113119
79.814
dwc_specificepithet_added  i108386
76.475
geopoint_datum_missing  i89635
63.244
dwc_multimedia_added  i81072
57.203
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i63003
44.453
rev_geocode_eez  i59183
41.758
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i56837
40.103
geopoint_low_precision  i51737
36.504
dwc_continent_added  i33951
23.955
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i33951
23.955
taxon_match_failed  i17070
12.044
rev_geocode_failure  i15174
10.706
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i10621
7.494
dwc_family_replaced  i8056
5.684
dwc_country_replaced  i3770
2.66
geopoint_0_coord  i3466
2.446
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2684
1.894
dwc_genus_replaced  i1497
1.056
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i1127
0.795
dwc_class_added  i914
0.645
rev_geocode_corrected  i420
0.296
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i262
0.185
dwc_order_added  i222
0.157
dwc_order_replaced  i220
0.155
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i109
0.077
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i96
0.068
geopoint_similar_coord  i88
0.062
rev_geocode_flip  i53
0.037
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i35
0.025
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i32
0.023
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i23
0.016
dwc_family_added  i16
0.011
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i15
0.011
dwc_class_replaced  i9
0.006
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i9
0.006
geopoint_bounds  i7
0.005
scientificname_added  i2
0.001
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